Calling All Mushroom Pickers - Your Help Needed For Research
Anne Lereboullet is a student from the University of Kent in Canterbury. she is enrolled in an MSc of Ethnobotany studying "Knowledge about fungi in the UK".
The aim of the research is to understand who gathers fungi in the UK, what these people know about fungi and how they learnt what they know.
More generally, she hopes to contribute to assess environmental knowledge in industrialized countries. The UK is particularly interesting because of two trends:
1) a traditional "mycophobia"
2) a contemporary increase of media coverage of wild food gathering.
PLEASE HELP - COMPLETE HER QUESTIONNAIRE
She has created a questionnaire to be completed by fungi gatherers . Anyone of British nationality and over 18 years old, who has been gathering any kind of fungi at least once in his/her life can participate.
It is a Word document and all answers are anonymous and will be used by me only for academic purposes.
1) have been gathering mushrooms at least once in their lives, even if not alone, even if not "edible" mushrooms
2) have British nationality and live in the UK (or at least grew up in the UK)
3) are over 18 years old
To Contribute simply email: mushrooms.study@googlemail.com, and you will get sent a questionnaire
PS: If some gatherers live in in the Canterbury area, I would be very happy to meet them!
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